Sunday, February 12, 2006

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Nigeria's oil hope and despair

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Nigeria's oil hope and despair: "For 50 years oil has been pumped from beneath the creeks, swamps and forests of the Delta, an area about the size of Scotland.

It has earned the Nigerian government billions of pounds. Yet the communities in the Delta say they continue to live in poverty.

Most of the promised development projects, like schools, roads and electricity supplies, have failed to materialise. Instead, they say, their land and water have been polluted by oil spills and their air ruined by the constant burning-off of natural gas."

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